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House under a walnut tree
House under a walnut tree
Říčany, Czechia
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House under a walnut tree
Říčany, Czechia
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
We named the concept a “living room in the garden”. The garden is divided by the main house into a south oriented social part and a north oriented resting area dominated by a full-grown walnut tree. The sectional solution of the house is based on the terrain configuration. The two bulks, of which the house consists, copy the terrain and are displaced from each other by half a floor. At the entrance, one has the choice of walking half a floor downward into the “social” area or half a floor upward into the “private” part of the house.
The plot has the shape of a crooked wine bottle with the bottleneck opening into the street, while the widening part slopes down southward. A beautiful walnut tree dominating the property enchanted us, clients and architects, from the beginning. Both the specific shape of the plot and the tree determined the main concept of the design. We placed the house into the lower, widening part of the plot. This solution enabled us to make the best of the garden potential, and to orient all the main premises of the house southward, toward the Sun and a nearby stream, while all the rooms needing peace, quiet and shade, such as the study, the sauna lounge, the lavatory etc., are facing north towards the walnut tree. In front of the study is a generous terrace isolated from the main garden. The kitchen and dining area is closely connected to an outside sheltered area accommodating a summer kitchen and wood storage. The garage with sauna is not included in the main bulk of the house, providing an energy-saving solution. Also we were thus able to build the garage with different, more economic technologies and phase the construction.
Our layout solution aims to create a generous interior while enabling a variability of the spaces not used on daily basis. The goal was to create a beautiful and functional home that is surrounded by nature.
“I try to create homes, not houses.” Louis Kahn
The plot has the shape of a crooked wine bottle with the bottleneck opening into the street, while the widening part slopes down southward. A beautiful walnut tree dominating the property enchanted us, clients and architects, from the beginning. Both the specific shape of the plot and the tree determined the main concept of the design. We placed the house into the lower, widening part of the plot. This solution enabled us to make the best of the garden potential, and to orient all the main premises of the house southward, toward the Sun and a nearby stream, while all the rooms needing peace, quiet and shade, such as the study, the sauna lounge, the lavatory etc., are facing north towards the walnut tree. In front of the study is a generous terrace isolated from the main garden. The kitchen and dining area is closely connected to an outside sheltered area accommodating a summer kitchen and wood storage. The garage with sauna is not included in the main bulk of the house, providing an energy-saving solution. Also we were thus able to build the garage with different, more economic technologies and phase the construction.
Our layout solution aims to create a generous interior while enabling a variability of the spaces not used on daily basis. The goal was to create a beautiful and functional home that is surrounded by nature.
“I try to create homes, not houses.” Louis Kahn
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